Sunday, December 28, 2014

Tom Fahy - 5 Minutes to Midnight (1995)

Comment:Tom Fahy and his satellites` 10-notch
issue is stylistically multi-faceted, extending from New Age-y big beat
cadences, hovering ambient tinged soundscapes and repetition-heavy guitar
shapes to more murky ethereal wave and slowed down progressions. By listening
to it the album resembles slightly My Bloody Valentine`s long-awaited third
album mbv (2013). For instance, Z Machine is saturated with reverb heavy
drums, overdriven guitar effects and signal-alike noises – in spite of it the
track sounds exuberantly full of segmented dreams and insights. And listen to Time Traveler's Dilemma (Maude) – pure
beauty. Sometimes the listener can feel the time to be stopped by or...just you
are stopped for the passing of time. Indeed, the time and being (and Martin
Heidegger) is one of their topics on the release. Ultimately it is a great
release – so do not miss it out on.